fox | hence the dye job, i suppose.

1. Doctor Who: The End of Time, part 1: Okay, so at first I thought, powerful black family WTF Obama stand-ins, only evil?, fuck off, Rusty. But then he referred to President Obama and I thought oh, okay, making it clear that these guys are not even meant to suggest the Obamas. And then he kept referring to President Obama ending the recession and I thought, fuck off, Rusty. And then he used a clip of the president speaking, which, I'm not sure where I stand on that; I was among those who didn't actually think it was hugely wrong to use President Clinton in "Contact", and as I recall that was a funeral scene where they co-opted the president actually speaking at the memorial service for the Oklahoma City victims or similar - when all you're clipping is "I'd like to say a few words about our economic situation", how bad can that be? Transformative, right? And yet it still felt like, Rusty, come on, you haven't used a single real public figure (bar the Queen, and then kind of not really) in four and a half years, and now you're using the real president? W, as I said, TF.

Also, the dynamic between that father and daughter was weird, man.

Also, though, yay Wilf and Donna, and of course one hopes (and trusts) that Donna will be okay even with the remembering. (Yay remembering!)

Also, holy John Simm doing an hour-long mad scene, eh? He's madding it up nicely. And I love all the drag at the end, how they didn't just CGI his head onto other people's bodies - he was there in the pink sweater set and in the grey dress jumping up and down and in the dude's suit that was too big for him and so on. MALKOVICH, is what I have to say about that. And the "Master race" crack was (I'm going to rule) uncalled for.

Also: jeebus cripes, if the Time Lords are back that means the Doctor isn't the Last of them anymore, thank god, let's have a new trope, shall we, thank you, Stephen Moffat. (Can't wait.)

Finally: Timothy Dalton, you really couldn't do it without spitting?

2. Sherlock Holmes: I liked it. I have never read a word of Doyle, I don't think, and have absorbed what I do know through osmosis, so I don't really have a dog in the fight. I didn't think it was a great film or anything, but I did have fun. And that Robert Downey Jr. does have (and always has had) an awfully nice smile.

3. My recipient seems to have very much liked my

yuletide story!, or else given a very good impression of it, so I'm very glad!

Night, y'all!